Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville and offensive coordinator Neal Brown both commented following Saturday night’s 45-40 loss to Texas A&M about a slew of Aggie injuries that slowed the pace of the game.
“Kind of slowed us down a little bit,” Tuberville said Saturday. “Kind of interesting they’d go down and come back the next play.”
Brown went a step further, saying the injuries were a factor working against Tech. He said it was “kind of ironic how they would have these bad injuries and then they would be back two plays later.”

For now, anyway, there's no more debate about who should be playing quarterback for Texas Tech. Steven Sheffield made his first start of the season Saturday in place of Taylor Potts, who ended up leading the Red Raiders to a come-from-behind win against Missouri and winning his job back.
But with only three games left in the regular season, and both those players being seniors, the debate can begin about who should start next season.

If you listened to the radio broadcast of Texas Tech's 27-24 win against Colorado on Saturday, you heard about a heated exchange on the sideline involving Tech head coach Tommy Tuberville, offensive coordinator Neal Brown and quarterback Taylor Potts.
Potts had just thrown an interception in the Colorado end zone, with the game tied and about six minutes remaining, and the three convened immediately thereafter.

Texas Tech quarterback Taylor Potts had his jaw X-rayed during halftime of Saturday's game against Oklahoma State, and before he jogged back on the field for the start of the third quarter, backup Steven Sheffield was warming up behind the Tech bench.
But there was no chance of Sheffield entering the game, no matter how much Red Raider fans would have liked for that to happen.
Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said Monday that Sheffield did not practice "all week" leading up to the game and "wasn't available to play quarterback."

The Associated Press released its preseason Top 25 poll on Saturday, and it did not include Texas Tech. The Red Raiders, who return most of the key players from a team that finished 9-4 and was ranked 21st at the end of last season, received 14 points in the voting and are listed 37th overall. One of those votes came from yours truly. I listed them 24th on my inaugural ballot, which I'll explain in greater depth in the days leading up the first weekend of the season.